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Re: [SECURITY] tiff, libpng, automake


On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 22:05 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Chuck?
> 
> Ping 2?
> 
> If you don't reply I guess we have to assume you're not with us
> anymore.  Which would be too bad.

Indeed. :-(

> On Aug  3 09:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jul 23 16:48, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > Chuck,
> > > 
> > > Security vulnerabilities are accumulating for the tiff package
> > > (CVE-2011-0192, CVE-2011-1167, CVE-2012-1173, CVE-2012-2088,
> > > CVE-2012-2113, CVE-2012-3401).  This can be fixed by updating to
> > > 3.9.6 and applying the four patches found here:
> > > 
> > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libtiff.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/f17;hb=f17
> > > 
> > > There are also security vulnerabilities in the libpng packages
> > > (CVE-2011-3026, CVE-2011-3048, and now CVE-2012-3386).  These need
> > > to be updated to the latest 1.4.12, 1.2.50, and 1.0.60 releases.

And now there's YA: automake1.11 needs a bump to 1.11.6 for
CVE-2012-3386; earlier branches are also affected, but I haven't seen
any backporting patches yet.


Yaakov



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